Normally, I don’t go to stadium gigs any more — age and arthritis have tempered the desire to sit through hours of warm-up music and often second-rate support acts, or to stand up throughout the entire show because if you […]
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I really do wonder how Will Hoge was off my radar for such a long time, as I pride myself on keeping up with a great number of artists who are virtually unknown this side of the “pond.” And I regularly […]
So what if all the music journos were broadly critical, so what if the band played by rote and the songs all sounded like the album versions (not quite true), so what if Joe Walsh has played all his solos […]
After seeing two acoustic Jason Isbell concerts over the last two years (one with Amanda Shires), Jason Isbell brought his 400 Unit (without Shires) to the Electric Ballroom in Camden Town for an evening of inspired music. Isbell has a […]
At long last, after more than 5 years, we have a new album featuring the sensational vocals of Kelly Willis, one of THE great female country singers. A shame that she has always been something of a maverick, otherwise she […]
Went to see a sold out concert of The Civil Wars in Cambridge (England) a couple or three weeks back, having bought tickets back in May following their rapturous reception during their last tour of the UK. And it was […]
Oh how I enjoy the current spate of Canadian singer-songwriters, pushing out some of the most insightful and melodic albums in what should be called Canadiana. On Sunday we had an excellent taster of some of the very best, when […]
Just back from the Canada Day celebrations in Central London, which took place in Trafalgar Square almost adjacent to Canada House. The music was split into two sessions but my focus was on the Canadian ladies who all appeared on […]
So…. Jason Isbell, probably the best acoustic solo concert I have seen. Sadly the Drive-By Truckers sort of passed me by (now rectified) and my introduction to Jason Isbell was via the David Letterman performance of Harlem River Blues by […]
I guess he has become increasingly popular since the particularly widespread and enthusiastic reception for his penultimate album “Instead the Forest Rose to Sing” , but by now Danny Schmidt should be a megastar in the folk firmament. In front […]
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